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Who’s Playing in Your Concert Bucket List?

Posted on by Katie
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Let’s just get one thing cleared up – I don’t have any immediate plans to remove myself, nor am I suffering from a debilitating disease.

I’ve always been one for making silly little lists – my notebooks are filled with vacation packing, outfit sketches, lists of worst boyfriends in asscending order (pun). One of my ongoing lists is my Concert Bucket List.

In case you haven’t seen Jack Nicolson & Morgan Freeman’s geriatric comedy, The Bucket List, let me outline the concept:

Two terminally ill men escape from a cancer ward and head off on a road trip with a wish list of to-dos before they die.

Except replace ‘terminally ill men’ with TOTALLY RAD BABE, ‘cancer ward’ with TORONTO, and ‘to-dos’ with CONCERTS, and that’s my Concert Bucket List in a nutshell.

“Hey Katie, which bands do you want to see and why?” So kind of you to ask!

1. Animal Collective

Two words: booopg gaaarhj. Because that’s what my brain turns to when I listen to Animal Collective. When I put on Peacebone from Strawberry Jam (2007), my bones start to vibrate like a tuning fork. My heart melts into a pool of tribal honey from My Girls from Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009). I actually spent a month adapting a cover of Bluish for a female voice and guitar (and let me tell you, the lesbian overtones become that much more evident).

Although I’m usually a fairly normal person (false), I’d be that girl at the concert wearing an animal mask and candy necklaces arranged over my girlie bits. So please, Animal Collective. Come to a venue near me. I have high hopes that you will, ever since you released these two teaser tracks, Honeycomb and Gotham on your website Sunday night!

2. Radiohead

Call me teenaged, but Radiohead totally gets me, you guys! I’ve wanted to see them translate my liquid feelings into harmonic dischord ever since my first obligatory freshman break-up, when I spent many wintry evenings paralysed on my dorm room floor, dripping wet and staring into the snow-purpled sky. Now I get to see them at Downsview Park on June 16th with Caribou! Dreams do come true, you guys. DREAMS COME TRUE.

3. Owen Pallett

Ever since I discovered Final Fantasy – or rather, Final Fantasy discovered me – I have made every effort to see this perfect human being in every iteration. I’ve seen him in Hamilton at the Lincoln Alexander Centre (perfection), for his Heartland release party, and with Basia Bulat & the girls of Obijou raising money for the Newman Boys fundraiser last month.

In fact, I once broke up with someone shortly after he failed to get showered & dressed in time for us to pick up our Guest List tickets for Owen Pallett’s performance on CBC Radio’s Q. Unforgivable. Plus, he smelled better than me.

4. Passion Pit

If I could be called dark, untilled humus as a music listener in my early twenties, Passion Pit planted the seed of musical excitement in me.

And they just happen to be on the lineup for Osheaga 2012, along with The Shins, Black Lips, Justice, MGMT, Yeasayer, Bombay Bicycle Club, and about a dozen other boner-worthy artists. You betcha I got a ticket, and it’s totally hanging out with my other concert tickets for Beirut and Tallest Man On Earth, and tUnE-yArDs. Making sweet ticket love.

5. Phoenix

I’m the kind of Phoenix fan whose love runs so deep, I actually own copies of Alphabetical (2004) and It’s Never Been Like That (2007). I love them so much that I could be in the middle of trying on skinny khakis that give me a camel toe more appropriate for the sand dunes of Rub’ al Khali, but if Phoenix came on over those little aluminum speakers, I’d be shaking my junk so hard the cellulite would fall out.
    Unlike the others, I don’t have any upcoming plans to see Phoenix, mostly because I missed them when they came around in 2009, and they haven’t put out anything new since Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. I would still trade my left nut to see them. And by that I mean cashews, because they are worth their weight in gold and tickets.
      So share your Concert Bucket Lists with me guys! I’d love to know what bands turn your crank!

        Awake at Midnight – Mixtape

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        This is the playlist that made itself.

        I listen to this mix and it takes me somewhere far away, where the months fly from February to April, skipping over slushy March entirely.

        DOWNLOAD AWAKE AT MIDNIGHT

        1. Free My Mind (RAC Remix) – Katie Herzig
        2. Sitting – White Denim
        3. Neighbor Crimes – Capybara
        4. The Sun – SURES
        5. Brand New Start – Concrete Knives
        6. Paddling Out – Miike Snow
        7. In Decay – Phedre
        8. My Better Self – Tennis
        9. Breathing Out – Doveman
        10. Unless You Speak From Your Heart – Porcelain Raft
        11. Stones In The Attic – Mr. Little Jeans
        12. You Need Me On My Own – Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
        13. Sweet Cheeks – Digital Leather
        14. Top Bunk – Gauntlet Hair
        15. Little By Little (Caribou Remix) – Radiohead

        Love,

        Katie

        Happy Halloween! Celebrate With A Mini Halloween Playlist

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        I decided to make a mini Halloween youtube playlist with some songs that I felt fit with a holiday that celebrates all things dead and creepy. Hope everyone had a Happy Halloween!

        Dead Man’s Bones - Dead Man’s Bones

        This whole album would have worked in this post, I picked this one because I don’t know when else I could post a song that includes a woman crying in the middle without it sticking out as weird and sad.

        Radiohead – Give up the Ghost

        One bonus to being a ghost is the fact that you could have sat in on these sessions unnoticed.


        Timber Timbre         – Demon Host

        Just like Dead Man’s Bones, another band that sounds perfect for Halloween.

        Sam Roberts – Waking the Dead

        One of my favourite Sam Roberts songs. This was the only audio I could find of this song (if you double click the youtube pane it will open to this sad tribute to some persons cat, Smokey,… RIP Smokey).

        Talking Heads – Psycho Killer

        A classic. 

        Summer Nighttime Playlist 2010 (mp3s)

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        The sun pours golden honey all over the lawn.
        MP3: Hoppípolla- Sigur Rós

        The honeysuckle opens; the sky is lilac.
        MP3: Fireweed – Patrick Watson

        The moths come out and are bumping against the porch light.
        MP3: The World Was Made for Men – The Ghost of a Saber-Toothed Tiger

        I dip my feet in the pond and push aside lily pads and water striders.
        MP3: I Wouldn’t Need You – Norah Jones

        I get the regular ten o’clock creeps, right on schedule.
        MP3: I Live With You – Grizzly Bear

        I turn the bedcovers down. The candles are still warm and smoking.
        MP3: Pitter Patter Goes My Heart – Broken Social Scene

        And slumber comes easily, especially when everyone else is already asleep.
        MP3: Motion Picture Soundtrack – Radiohead